INTRODUCTION. Xlil 



ington, Jefferson and Madison all tillers of the 

 land. 



With this drift of the times, nothing can give 

 more pleasure than to contribute to the most enlight- 

 ened use of the land and the things of the land. 

 We must hasten to reverse the waste of the useful 

 and the beautiful, the wanton destruction of our 

 windbreaks and water preserves. The small contri- 

 bution of a few rods of windbreaks or hedges or 

 a clump of shelter may seem an insignificant item, 

 but these taken in the aggregate of tens of thousands 

 will do more than large forest plantations and 

 reservations to equalize temperature and water pre- 

 cipitation. Whoever builds a beautiful home and 

 surrounds it with judicious plantings of trees is a 

 public benefactor. 



